FAITH CAPSULE: Prayer opens every form of closed experiencing.

2 Kings 6

Today, why not seek God prayerfully, for the opening that is closed, you know and do not know?
One thing God cannot do is: God can not fail.
Praying before God is an opener of any closed door to the glory of God.
Are you experiencing a closed door physically or spiritually?
A true believer, with prayer, shall experience heaven open.
Jesus prayed at His water baptism, and heaven opened.
Luke 3:21 records, “When all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also was baptized; and while He prayed, the heaven was opened.”
At the opening of heaven, the Holy Spirit descended, and a voice answered to identify Jesus as one who pleased God.
The cry of the son of Hagar reaches God when thirsty.
God opened the eyes of Hagar to see a well in place to quench the thirst of Hagar and her son for Abraham. (Genesis 21)
God hears the prayers for heaven to open.
Elisha and his servant were surrounded by enemies, with no way for them to escape the hand of the enemy, and the servant was overwhelmed with fear. Elisha turned to prayer before God, and the servant gained sight to see the protection of God in place.
2 Kings 6:17 documents, “And Elisha prayed, and said, ‘Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.”
A prayer for opening sight to see the direction to move forward, and will avoid being a victim of the wicked world.
Prayer opens eyes, and eyes will see protection in place against fear.
Anyone with sight will not walk where there is a need to run.
With sight, one will not worry or weary where the provision is in place.
PRAY
Ask that God open your eyes to see His hand over your life in all your endeavors, so that you do not falter.
Pray that everywhere fear is militating against you, not to stand firm in the boldness in God, be ceased permanently in your life.
Ask that everywhere the lack of needs is having place in your life become ceased and not live in lack.  
1 Corinthians 16:9 records, “For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.”
What you know and understand, to engage, shall answer as great and effective.
Is there an effective door that is open for you to enter and not?
What is that denying you from entering the open door for you?
Can it be that one is not able to see the open door?
PRAY
Ask that whatever stands in the way of your entering your open door shall be removed
permanently.
Ask that every effective door before you, shall not become a victim of affliction.

FAITH CAPSULE: When God remembers, He also rescues. 

Jeremiah 52

 He is the king of kings, the Lord of lords. 
King David testifies, “The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood, and the Lord sits as King forever.” (Psalm 29:10)
The only God that reverses the irreversible is the perfect God.
God reversed what seems to be irreversible for Jehoiachin, who had been in captivity for thirty-seven years, when God raised his head and brought him out. (Jeremiah 52:31) 
When you have a desire to follow God, with positive confession, knowing that God is not a partial God, expect that the new month He has enabled you to see shall answer for you as a month of following God.
To follow God is victory in all endeavors.
With faith, your portion is victory in all endeavors.
Jeremiah 52:31 records, “Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.”  
God used Evil-Merodach, the king of Babylon and son of Nebuchadnezzar, to lift the head of Jehoiachin. 
God will use anyone to lift you from every challenge that keeps your head down. 
God alone is a capable God who will cause you to preside over your persecutors. 
Evil-Merodach was in the hand of God to lift the head of Jehoiachin. When God remembers, He also rescues. 
Having used Evil-Merodach to rescue Jehoiachin, God also made him change the garment of Jehoiachin from that of a prisoner to that of one who eats before the king all the days of his life. 
The truthfulness of God performs, and He performs with perfection. 
There is nothing God is incapable of doing, and His capability has no measure. 
God visited Daniel in the den of hungry lions. 
He caused the starved lions to have no appetite for fresh meat.
Are you waiting on Him in prayer concerning a challenge that seems unmovable? 
Continue to trust and hope in God by waiting on Him. 
Concerning your challenge, it is not time to stop praying but to continually top up your waiting in prayer. 
God is a prayer-answering God. 
Know it and make it a note in your heart that the understanding that God is capable of bringing the Israelites out of the bondage of over four hundred years is more than able to convert your challenge to a glorious change. 
God alone is Jehovah Sharma, and He will hear and answer at the calling of His Name. 
Stand in faith so that the faithful God will show on your behalf. 
With faith, God is pleased, and without faith, God is not. 
Proverbs 16:7 buttresses, “When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies be at peace with him.” 
Have faith that God is more than capable and will see you through. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to send forth His help and lift your head from every challenge.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you avoiding devices of distraction so as not to follow God?

1 Samuel 13

The disobedience of King Saul was a distraction.
1 Samuel 13:5-7 documents the distraction of the Israelites, causing them to become scattered in the face of their enemies.
The Bible records, “Then the Philistines gathered together to fight with Israel, [c]thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. And they came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth Aven. 6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in danger (for the people were distressed), then the people hid in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in holes, and in pits. 7 And some of the Hebrews crossed over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was still in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.” 
The Israelites do not have any reasonable excuse to look at the military might of the Philistines set against them.
Also, King Saul does not have to look at the fear that caused the stress of the Israelites.
King Saul did not follow the instructions of God through the Prophet Samuel.
King Saul was to wait for seven days, but he failed to wait for Prophet Samuel.
King Saul should have focused on the direction to follow through.
Are you following the word of God?
Following the word of God is engaging direction, not to become a victim of the wicked world.
Distraction can be a weapon of the enemy to deny arrival at the assignment of God.
Many with the calling to follow God have become victims of distraction.
Distraction does not announce itself to derail King Saul from the proposed agenda of God for His calling over his life.
Distraction will derail or deny one with no focus on God.
Distraction is the agent that prevents one from getting to the divine assignment.
Distraction is an agent of derailment from walking in the Lord, to answer fully, just like Caleb and Joshua.
The character of anyone who follows the word of God shall become built up to the glory of God.
Apostle Paul admonishes all in Acts 20:32, “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.”
Distraction can build up discouragement.
Follow the word of God and be built up for the glory of God.
Pray that being distracted will not have a place in you to deny and derail you from arriving at your divine assignment.
What is distracting is not of God but of the devil.
Seven things that come with distraction are:
Deny distraction from having a place in your heart.
The source of distraction for one not to live life for the glory of God can be from the closest ones.

Prayer for today: Ask for deliverance from any form of distraction.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do you know God to follow Him?

Genesis 22

What kind of a believer are you?
Consciously, who do you follow?
Are you following God by the mouth or by your way of life?
Do you know God to follow Him?
God creates all to live for His glory.
It is the will of God for all to exist for Him. (Revelation 4:11)
To exist for God is to follow Him.
Following God fully is seeking Him diligently.
It is not too much, nor is it too little, to follow Him more.
Why not follow God?
One with a desire to follow God is such that God shall deposit what one has desired.
Have the desire to follow God as your way of life.
To follow Him or attempt to follow Him must deny distraction.
The stage in life or profession will not be an excuse for not following God.
Jesus, who called the fishermen to follow Him.
Just as He called the fishermen, so it is that His call is for all to follow Him.
Matthew 4:18-20 documents the calling by Jesus: “And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. 19 Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” 20 They immediately left their nets and followed Him.
Are you following God, the world, or man?
It is worth it for all to search themselves and know if they are following God or not.
Many assume they are following God, but are far from God.
Answering in the name of religion is not evidence of following God.
For example, answering as a member of the church is not evidence of following God.
Answering to a title is not the meaning of following God.
What is it that one is holding to that will prevent one from following God?
Abram obediently followed the command of God.
God asked for the only son of Abram for sacrifice, and he obeyed God.
In Genesis 22:12, God responded to the obedience of Abram, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
Abraham did not withhold because he had the fear of God.
Abram answered to obey God.
Anyone who does not hold against the command of God is following God.
Following God will lead to living for God, not a life of waste, and arriving at a divine assignment.
All should live life for the glory of God because He creates all to exist for Him.
Follow God, so as not to be a victim of the wicked world.
Through the pages of the Bible, none followed God and failed.

Prayer for today: Pray that whatever you hold on to, not to follow God in His word (command), be separated from your life.